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Australia: Despite police crackdown, Muslim network openly spreads jihad ideology, may recruit for jihad groups

Aug 20, 2020 2:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

This jihadi network received unfavorable attention from the media and police years ago, yet it is still operating. Australian officials’ failure to implement a zero tolerance policy has enabled it to continue its activity. As long as this official diffidence continues, these jihadist organizations will inevitably proliferate further, while continue to intimidate anyone who warns about them. It’s how they operate everywhere.

Too many Westerners still have not caught on to the “Islamophobia” subterfuge. Instead, the cancel culture and after years of political correctness have cowed all too many people into silence.

“Network Of Jihad Supporters In Australia Still Going Strong,” MEMRI, August 13, 2020:

In 2013, MEMRI reported on the Al-Risalah Islamic bookstore in Sydney, Australia, which also served as a community center for local Muslims.[1] The report noted that the bookstore, located in the Bankstown area of West Sydney, was a hub for the dissemination of Islamist materials and for spreading extremist and militant Islamic views. Many individuals who operated and preached there later joined Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State (ISIS), and/or were involved in terror activity inside Australia. Owned by Australian preacher and community leader Wissam Haddad, the center closed in September 2014 after media reports about its activity sparked public outrage.[2]

However, a new MEMRI JTTM report, based on research conducted in 2019-2020, shows that despite the media attention and the police crackdown several years ago, many members of this Sydney-based jihadi network are still very active, preaching extremist views both online and on the ground and possibly recruiting for terror organizations.

This new MEMRI JTTM report gives a comprehensive overview of the network of individuals, organizations, venues, social media accounts and media operations based in and around Sydney. The individuals include several senior figures who were previously active in the area, as well as new recruits. All were found to be linked, through personal and online contacts, to jihadi fighters, jihadi social media accounts, and/or individuals currently or previously incarcerated for terror-related offenses. Some members of the network are now convicted terrorists themselves.

The network members are continuing to spread Salafi-jihadi ideology similar to ISIS ideology within the community and online, by disseminating extremist materials, delivering sermons and lectures, and holding prayer and study groups as well as through recreational community activities. The research also uncovered an ongoing effort of “street da’wah,” that is, activity in in public places, which involves setting up booths to dispense pamphlets, copies of the Quran, and other Islamic materials and preaching to passersby. These activities focus especially on Muslim teens, with the aim of drawing them into the Salafi-jihadi circle, and on non-Muslims, especially members of minorities, with the aim of interesting them in conversion to Islam….

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Filed Under: Australia, Jihad in the West, mosques, Sharia Tagged With: Al-Risalah Islamic bookstore, Sydney, Wissam Haddad


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  1. CogitoErgoSum says

    Aug 20, 2020 at 2:42 pm

    The thinking is the same as with Black Lives Matter and Antifa over here in the U.S. Once they get you down on the ground one of them will sneak up from behind you and kick you in the head and the rest will curse at you as they walk away from your lifeless body.

  2. Keith O says

    Aug 20, 2020 at 5:24 pm

    Once again we are being screwed over by our so called leaders who don’t want to upset the voters who put them in their high paid do nothing “jobs”.
    And they don’t care if they have to sell out the rest of humanity and their country in the process.
    There is a simple term for these people,,,,,TRAITORS. And the tag starts at the Prime Minister and flows down hill with the rest of the scum.

    • eisha93 says

      Aug 21, 2020 at 11:43 pm

      Keith, be careful here.. you have to remember that policies are made, and if the senate has a high proportion of the left in it, then Liberal will not be able to stop them voting against what the left had brought into law when they were in government.. Just look at the achievements that they have done in stopping illegals, and cutting back on immigrants.. The UN has insisted that the west bring in so many so called Fugees, and I gather they have not forced Japan, China, countries to take in refugees, nor safe Arab countries, and they have refused.. evidently Japan and China want their race to stay pure..
      A politician said to me once, that once people have been manipulated to believe that something is good for them, it is like trying to stop a fully laden steam ship which is going full steam ahead, and all we had to do was see the havoc that this religion was causing over seas with over 35,000 terrorist attacks since September 11th, and that is not counting the thousands of gang rapes, torture, death threats, and individual killing of our own people, which is kept quite..

      • Patrick says

        Aug 22, 2020 at 6:17 am

        ❤️👍🇺🇸

  3. Patrick Kelley says

    Aug 20, 2020 at 5:42 pm

    Nothing new here, Muslims spread their ideology in every country they have a presence in. The higher the Muslim population density, the greater the penetration. In the U.S. you’ll find them in Congress, Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR members walking the halls of Congress and the White House, with suits on. You’ll find them in city and state governments, all to change America to Sharia. Democrats support Islamic jihad, the media supports Islamic jihad. The average citizen hears/sees nothing regarding Islamic jihad activity in America but, JihadWatch.com, GellerReport.com, UTT.com, CreepingSharia.com, Dr Bill Warner at PoliticalIslam.com are excellent sources for insight into Islam, Islamic jihad activity in America.

    Why does the United States of America allow worldwide Islamic terrorist organizations who promote Islamic totalitarianism/jihad, to operate openly and freely within this country? Within the halls of Congress and the White House?

  4. gravenimage says

    Aug 20, 2020 at 9:26 pm

    Australia: Despite police crackdown, Muslim network openly spreads jihad ideology, may recruit for jihad groups
    ………………

    This is happening throughout the West.

  5. AP says

    Aug 21, 2020 at 6:39 am

    Its a good thing that the Australia gave up their guns so the Jeehaddies can easily attack them. Thank your politicans.

  6. OLD GUY says

    Aug 21, 2020 at 10:43 am

    Just the migration invasion army in action. If you let the enemy in the door you are inviting destruction of your home or country. Open borders and open doors are no way to stay safe.

    • James Lincoln says

      Aug 21, 2020 at 11:19 am

      OLD GUY,

      100% true.

      Ever notice when “open borders” politicians are asked the simple question:

      Do you lock the doors in your home?

      They desperately try to not answer the question – because it wouldn’t follow their narrative.

      Watch Tucker Carlson at the 2:30 mark as he asks Jorge Ramos about locking his own doors. Cognitive dissonance at its best:

    • eisha93 says

      Aug 21, 2020 at 11:47 pm

      Yes, notice that either all or 95% of those in the boats were men.. And those we saw on Utube flooding into Europe were all men.. and they did nothing. They not need guns, they just use violence, rape and torture.. Mohammad said that they had been made victorious through fear..

      • Patrick Kelley says

        Aug 22, 2020 at 5:56 am

        Immigration jihad…another victory by Muhammad/Islam.

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